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NIH Panel: End Bans on Vaginal Birth After C-Section
March 10, 2010 - Hospitals and professional societies should end bans that that keep many women who've had a C-section from opting for a natural birth in later pregnancies, an NIH advisory panel today urged. About 75% of women succeed in having a vaginal delivery after previous cesarean delivery, as
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Gestational Diabetes Underdiagnosed
Feb. 26, 2010 -- In response to research confirming that even small elevations in blood sugar during pregnancy can lead to sick babies, an international panel of experts is recommending sweeping changes in how gestational diabetes is diagnosed. If adopted, the changes would mean that in the future t
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Sex During Pregnancy: Women Tell All
Feb. 23, 2010 -- Sex during pregnancy: What do women really do? Sexual intercourse is safe throughout a normal pregnancy. That's what the experts say -- but to find out what pregnant women really experience, why not ask the women themselves? That's just what sex researchers Joana Rocha Pauleta, MD,
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Early Pregnancy Weight Gain Ups Diabetes Risk
Feb. 22, 2010 -- Women who gain more weight than is recommended early in pregnancy have an increased risk for developing gestational diabetes later on, a study shows. Excess weight gain, especially in the first trimester, increased gestational diabetes risk by about 50% among the women included in t
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Milk for Mom May Lower Baby’s MS Risk
Feb. 9, 2010 -- Pregnant women who drink plenty of milk may be protecting their child from developing multiple sclerosis (MS) in the future. MS is a nervous system disease that attacks the material, called myelin, that covers nerve fibers. This disrupts signaling between nerves and causes nerve dam
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Just How Real Is 'Pregnancy Brain'?
Feb. 5, 2010 -- Pregnancy and motherhood don't cause women to have memory lapses and other cognitive problems, even though the concept of ''pregnancy brain'' and ''momnesia'' are widely accepted, according to a new Australian study. ''When focused on a task, women who are pregnant or new mothers do
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Antidepressants May Delay Lactation
Jan. 27, 2010 -- Early research suggests a link between antidepressant use and breastfeeding difficulties in new moms. The risk of delayed lactation after giving birth was twice as great among women in the study taking selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants as among new mother
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Lower Birth Weights for Full-Term Babies
Jan. 21, 2010 -- Birth weights of full-term babies in the United States decreased from 1990 to 2005, a new study says. Researchers at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute’s Department of Population Medicine, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School, and Boston University published their findings
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Eating, Drinking May Be OK During Labor
Jan. 20, 2010 -- There is little medical justification for telling women in labor not to eat or drink, a review of the research finds. For many decades, the prevailing practice in childbirth has been to restrict food and fluids during labor to little more than ice chips. This was largely due to conc
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How Medicines Affect Pregnancy: At Last, a Study
Dec. 31, 2009 -- How do common medications affect pregnancy? To the chagrin of women trying to decide whether they must forego helpful medicines during pregnancy, nobody really knows. Now -- at long last -- the FDA and a consortium of HMOs have launched a huge set of studies to find out. "These data
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